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			<h1>Oz might be a place for queers.</h1>
			<p>Day 00901: <time>Thursday, 2017 August 24</time></p>
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		The other day, someone pointed me toward the term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy">friend of Dorothy</a>, a slang term referring to a gay male.
		The Wikipedia article on the term mentioned that the original, unextended series featured several queer-friendly plots.
		I&apos;m starting to notice this now.
		I question the &quot;crush&quot; Dorothy supposedly had on the china girl in the first book.
		Dorothy wanted to use the china girl as a shelf ornament; that doesn&apos;t seem romantic or sexual in any way.
		In the second book though, you read about a princess that got turned into a boy as a baby, in order to hide her away.
		Once her location is discovered, the witch of the south wants to return her to her original form.
		However, she doesn&apos;t want to be a girl; she wants to remain a boy.
		Either this cisgirl was transformed into a cisboy, meaning that her personality was altered in the process, or he never was a she at all.
		He was a transboy that got transformed into a cisboy.
		I&apos;ve finished the reading portion of the library challenge, so I&apos;m not likely to spend my off-work hours reading library books.
		I&apos;m reading them at work on my breaks still though.
		I&apos;ve started the third book in the series, and you quickly meet a hen that was mis-sexed as a chick.
		She got named &quot;Bill&quot;, then when she grew into a hen, her owners never renamed her.
		It seems parallel to how transfolks get misgendered at birth.
		It&apos;s not quite the same, but I can see why this would be considered a queer-friendly plot point.
		That said, unlike misgendered humans such as myself that were poorly named, this mis-sexed hen doesn&apos;t care about the gender of her name.
		Dorothy makes a point of feminising her name into &quot;Billina&quot;, but the hen doesn&apos;t care about this one way or another, stating that any name is fine so long as she knows it refers to herself.
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		The franchise owner has been coming into our workplace lately and throwing stuff out.
		Earlier, they threw out all our aprons, then ordered new ones.
		They didn&apos;t order new ones, wait for them to arrive, then throw out the old ones; they threw the old ones away first, leaving us with no aprons.
		So we&apos;ve been dealing with that lately.
		Now, I found they&apos;ve thrown out our trash cans.
		This time, they waited for the new ones to arrive first, but it&apos;s still a waste of good trash cans.
		I managed to find and salvage the trash can with the most damage to it, but I couldn&apos;t see the others; they were likely buried in the dumpster, and I wasn&apos;t going to go digging.
		Once I get this thing washed out though, I&apos;ll have a nice, large trash can for my entry area, and I won&apos;t have to take the garbage out quite as often.
		Or maybe, I&apos;ll use it as a place to store returnable bottles before I take them in for deposit.
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		My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
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	<h2>Library task list</h2>
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		I was scheduled to volunteer for three hours, but they only needed me to work a little over two.
		I got out early, but at least it wasn&apos;t <strong>*too*</strong> early; I needed to put in at least two hours for that library challenge.
		It&apos;s tiring work though; I was famished by the time I left.
		I should&apos;ve brought a snack of some sort or had a bigger breakfast.
		Some of the work hurt my back, too; I might want to wear my back brace next time and see if that prevents it.
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		I finished reading The Marvellous Land of Oz.
		That completes my reading for the challenge.
		I don&apos;t have much left to do before I turn in my sheet.
		I also searched the virtual reference library, which as I should have guess, is a reference library.
		I thought it&apos;d have most of the same books the main library had for some reason, but nope, it&apos;s just reference books.
		Furthermore, there aren&apos;t any old, out-of-copyright books there.
		I located a book, <a href="urn:isbn:9781420509427">Online Schools</a>, to check off that requirement.
		Thankfully, I didn&apos;t have to actually read the book, only find it, so that didn&apos;t add another proprietary book to my reading list.
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		I was thinking about my strangeness in needing a commitment before sex even though I&apos;m a gay male and gay males don&apos;t tend to want a commitment.
		I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that I&apos;m agendered.
		I&apos;m a gay male, but I&apos;m not a gay <strong>*man*</strong>.
		I&apos;m not a real boy, so I don&apos;t <strong>*think*</strong> like a real boy.
		I have different needs, different desires.
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